[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-weekend-doings":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Okay, I'll start with some random sketches I made:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/doodle14jun09-b7e8e3dd47.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou can read some newsy updates about the \u003Cb>Caption\u003C/b> comics festival in Oxford this August \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bugpowder.com/09/06/10/index.html\">over on Bugpowder\u003C/a> and on \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13365\">Forbidden Planet\u003C/a>. (I'm going to talk about cross-over stuff in the picture book and comics industries.)\\r\n\\r\nOn Friday night, I went to see work by an American living in London, \u003Cb>Charles Michael Reid\u003C/b>. He'd be doing some on-site installation work for the past week at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.house-gallery.co.uk\">House\u003C/a> gallery in Camberwell, where I used to work. His artwork draws hugely on comics, and there's some great stuff \u003Ca href=\"http://www.charlesmichaelreid.com\">on his website here\u003C/a>. If a certain funding comes through, we're really hoping he can stay on to coordinate exhibitions in the House gallery space. \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/charlesmreid-3e7d921713.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com/\">DFC buddies\u003C/a> \u003Cb>Emma Vieceli\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://emmav.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">emmav\u003C/a>) and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> both had their big birthday parties on the same day! So I went party hopping with John Aggs, Viviane Schwarz and \u003Ca href=\"http://mondoagogo.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">mondoagogo\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\nConfession time, Gary, I was supposed to give this card to you from my neighbour friend, but I mislaid it... so it will come to you a little bit late! Eek. But isn't it lovely?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garycard-c688c2ccf2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Party stuff under the cut-->\\r\nHere's Gary with his dad:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garyparty1-7fd511cf8b.jpg\">\\r\nAnd one of Viviane, who discovered the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.germandeli.co.uk\">German Deli\u003C/a> near Borough Market on her way to the Anchor pub on the South Bank. She bought rusk crackers with a rather disturbing child on the label, some hyper-caffeinated chocolate in a cool tin and some fizzy babies-breath-flavoured drink mix.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garyparty3-4211835b42.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPolaroid! Here we are, deep in discussion about coming up with a studio name which combines the fact that we've all been doing sheep comics and will be based in an old police station.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garyparty2-4ab709b974.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nEmma's party was in an amusingly goth pub called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub3798.html\">Ben Crouch\u003C/a> with Hammer horror soundtracks in the toilets. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/emmaparty1-abc46a8064.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nJohn bought some toxic green sludge in test tubes, which Anna and I were suckers enough to glug. Here you can just about see Emma and Marc Ellerby (\u003Ca href=\"http://burnt_jamb.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">burnt_jamb\u003C/a>). And John, with his evil potions.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/emmaparty2-f21519c8da.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nRemember that \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/mcmexpo09_18.jpg\">adorable hamster\u003C/a> at MCM Expo? Well, I met her properly this time! Her name's \u003Cb>Joanna Zhou\u003C/b>, she's part of the Sweatdrop Studios collective, and she makes those gorgeous \u003Ca href=\"http://www.chocolatepixels.com/momiji.html\">Momiji\u003C/a> dolls that I am always wanting. She gave a hamster Momiji doll to Emma for her birthday and I was falling over with the hamster cuteness.","2009-06-14T22:47:00.000Z","weekend-doings",[],"weekend doings",1776628732760]